Treatment of Underlying Forms

Introduction to the Technique Treatment for Underlying Forms (TUF) is a linguistic approach to aphasia therapy designed to improve sentence production and comprehension by targeting complex sentence structures. Developed by Cynthia Thompson and colleagues, TUF is based on the idea that training in complex sentence forms will generalize to simpler sentence structures due to shared syntactic properties. TUF is designed for people with impaired grammar and sentence structure. Most successful people will have basic comprehension abilities, but this therapy might be too advanced for someone with severe comprehension impairments. TUF is effective in helping people with aphasia produce more complex sentences. It has also led to longer sentences and improved correct use of verbs. Patient population This treatment is specifically designed for individuals with agrammatic aphasia,  Commonly seen in Broca’s aphasia. Individuals have difficulty understanding and producing complex sentences. Peo...